Himla Soodyall

This study re-evaluates AMY1 copy number evolution using ancestry-aware models and finds demographic history, not diet, drives global variation.

This study analyzes genetic ancestry in the South African Coloured population, revealing regional variations and sex-biased admixture patterns.

The paper generates and analyzes 1,288 complete mitochondrial genomes from sub-Saharan Africa to update the understanding of maternal genetic diversity and demographic history.

This study uses whole-genome sequencing and machine learning to reconstruct demographic history and gene-flow patterns among African populations, finding that tree-like histories with gene-flow pulses better explain genetic diversity than continuous gene-flow.

The paper analyzes ancient genomes from southern Africa to show that modern human divergence occurred over 260,000 years ago, pushing back previous estimates and linking it to the Middle Stone Age and anatomical changes in the fossil record.